This is how The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction looked when it began in 1949 with the Bill Stone cover illustration and the evocative, flowing calligraphic logo by Mercury Publications' art director George Salter (1897-1967).

Co-editor Anthony Boucher (1911-1968) used as a pseudonym, H.H. Holmes, the name of a 19th-century serial killer. Oliver Onions (1873-1961) wrote the classic unforgettable psychological terror story, "The Beckoning Fair One", which can be read here.

Herman W. Mudgett was Holmes's real name, as well as another of Boucher's pseudonyms. Around the time of the Chicago Exposition in 1893, Mudgett -- as in a modern slasher film -- opened a hotel in that city specifically to carry out his murders.